THE NEW SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.
Lord Randolph Churchill, who is Secretary of State for India in Lord Salisbury's Ministry, is, when roused, not particularly mild in his language. A speech of Lord Granville in the House raised his ire, and, in a letter to the Times, Lord Churchill asks leave "to deal with this man." He concluded his letter as follows:—"All I would add in conclusion is this, that every statement that I have made in the House of Commons about the Russian advance in Central Asia was founded on official documents in the possession of the public, and that not one of his colleagues dare to impugn the accuracy of these statements, either on the day they were made or on the Monday following, when another opportunity was open to them. The process of sneaking down to the House of Lords and making there without notice a variety of deliberate misrepresentations, deliberate misquotations, and false assertions is quite in accordance with the little that is known of the public career of Earl Granville, Knight of the Garter, and, to the misfortune of his country, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Your columns being the only place where I am able to seize upon and expose this official mendacity, I will be grateful to yoa for insuring Una So0)e----vvhat lengthy communication."
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Kumara Times, Issue 2754, 20 July 1885, Page 3
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226THE NEW SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA. Kumara Times, Issue 2754, 20 July 1885, Page 3
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